Sputter coated ZnO thin films on glass and polycarbonate: Evaluation of stability and interaction with Flavin adenine dinucleotide-dependent oxidases.

abstract：:A theoretical framework is developed to analyze molecular bond breaking in dynamic force spectroscopy using atomic force microscopy (AFM). An analytic expression of the observed bond breaking probability as a function of force is obtained in terms of the relevant physical parameters. Three different experimental reali...

journal_title：Biointerphases

authors： Hanke F,Kreuzer HJ

更新日期：2006-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Inspired by the composition of the native extracellular matrix, biomimetic polyelectrolyte multilayers were assembled from polypeptides and the glycosaminoglycan chondroitin sulfate (CS). To investigate whether peptide conformation imposes an effect on the cell biological functions of osteoblasts, the secondary struct...

journal_title：Biointerphases

authors： Grohmann S,Rothe H,Liefeith K

更新日期：2012-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The application of magnesium alloys as biomaterials is limited by their poor corrosion behavior. Microarc oxidation (MAO) treatment was used to prepare ceramic coatings on ZK60 magnesium alloys in order to overcome the poor corrosion resistance. The process was conducted at different current densities (3.5 and 9.0 A/d...

journal_title：Biointerphases

authors： You Q,Yu H,Wang H,Pan Y,Chen C

更新日期：2014-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The limit of detection of advanced immunoassays, biochips and micro/nano biodetection devices is impacted by the non-specific adsorption of target molecules at the sample surface. In this paper, we present a simple and versatile low cost method for generating active surfaces composed of antibodies arrays surrounded by...

journal_title：Biointerphases

authors： Egea AM,Trévisiol E,Vieu C

更新日期：2013-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Force spectroscopy has been used to measure the adhesion of Saos-2 cells to a glass surface at different phases of the cell cycle. The cells were synchronized in three phases of the cell cycle: G(1), S, and G(2)M. Cells in these phases were compared with unsynchronized and native mitotic cells. Individual cells were a...

journal_title：Biointerphases

authors： Weder G,Vörös J,Giazzon M,Matthey N,Heinzelmann H,Liley M

更新日期：2009-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Antimicrobial peptides (AMPs) are attractive as biomaterial coatings because they have broad spectrum activity against different microbes, with a low likelihood of incurring antimicrobial resistance. Direct action against the bacterial membrane is the most common mechanism of action (MOA) of AMPs, with specific MOAs d...

journal_title：Biointerphases

authors： Alexander TE,Smith IM,Lipsky ZW,Lozeau LD,Camesano TA

更新日期：2020-05-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Although protein-stabilized gold nanoclusters (AuNCs) have gathered recent attention as biocompatible peroxidase mimics, their practical utility has been critically limited by the low catalytic activity. Here, the authors have developed a nanohybrid material to significantly enhance the catalytic activity of AuNCs by ...

journal_title：Biointerphases

authors： Cho S,Shin HY,Kim MI

更新日期：2017-01-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Diamond has outstanding bulk properties such as super hardness, chemical inertness, biocompatibility, luminescence, to name just a few. In the nanoworld, in order to exploit these outstanding bulk properties, the surfaces of nanodiamond (ND) particles must be accordingly engineered for specific applications. Modificat...

journal_title：Biointerphases

authors： Shenderova OA,McGuire GE

更新日期：2015-09-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent developments in the field of fullerene C60 and its derivatives suggest its suitability in a wide range of applications ranging from photovoltaic instruments, development of solar based cells, cosmetics to enzyme inhibition treatment, and so on. These innovative applications raised possibilities of intentional o...

journal_title：Biointerphases

authors： Biby ET,Prajitha N,Rajeev KS,Mohanan PV

更新日期：2019-03-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Coatings of biomaterials or implants that facilitate biomineralization possess a great potential for applications focused to the replacement, augmentation, and regeneration of bone tissue. Biomimetic approaches utilize biomolecules for either templating or supporting the crystallization process. One of these promising...

journal_title：Biointerphases

authors： Grohmann S,Rothe H,Eisenhuth S,Hoffmann C,Liefeith K

更新日期：2011-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Neuronal process growth is guided by extrinsic environmental cues such as extracellular matrix (ECM) proteins. Recent reports have described that the growth cone extension is superior across gradients of the ECM protein laminin compared to growth across uniformly distributed laminin. In this work, the authors have pre...

journal_title：Biointerphases

authors： Zander NE,Beebe TP Jr

更新日期：2014-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study presents the morphological and chemical modification of the cell structure of aerosolized Escherichia coli treated with a dielectric barrier discharge (DBD). Exposure to DBD results in severe oxidation of the bacteria, leading to the formation of hydroxyl groups and carbonyl groups and a significant reducti...

journal_title：Biointerphases

authors： Romero-Mangado J,Nordlund D,Soberon F,Deane G,Maughan K,Sainio S,Singh G,Daniels S,Saunders IT,Loftus D,Meyyappan M,Koehne J,Gandhiraman RP

更新日期：2016-03-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Although it is well known that the textural properties of scaffolds play an important role in the process of tissue regeneration, the investigation of such effects remain difficult especially at the micro/nano level. Texture confers the material the additional ability to entrap/concentrate molecules circulating in the...

journal_title：Biointerphases

authors： Espanol M,Casals I,Lamtahri S,Valderas MT,Ginebra MP

更新日期：2012-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Shewanella oneidensis MR-1 is a dissimilatory metal-reducing bacterium capable of reducing various metal and sulfur compounds and precipitating them in nanoparticulate form. Here, we report the synthesis of molybdenum disulfide nanomaterials at the site of S. oneidensis biofilms grown in the presence of molybdenum tri...

journal_title：Biointerphases

authors： Rees JD,Gorby YA,Sawyer SM

更新日期：2020-07-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Living confluent fish fibroblast cells RTG-P1 from rainbow trout adherent on diamond were examined by attenuated total reflection (ATR) infrared (IR) spectroscopy. In particular, IR spectra were recorded dynamically during the adsorption of the cells onto the diamond and during their biochemically induced structural r...

journal_title：Biointerphases

authors： Schmidt M,Wolfram T,Rumpler M,Tripp CP,Grunze M

更新日期：2007-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In view of the rare presence of studies concerning platelet function as risk factor in atherosclerotic patients, processes underlying thromboembolic events are reviewed in this paper. The morphology and the structural organization-membrane receptors, the open canalicular and dense tubular systems, the cytoskeleton, mi...

journal_title：Biointerphases

authors： Reinthaler M,Braune S,Lendlein A,Landmesser U,Jung F

更新日期：2016-06-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Fast and efficient osseointegration of implants into bone is of crucial importance for their clinical success; a process that can be enhanced by coating the implant surface with hydroxyapatite (HA) using the vacuum plasma spray technology (VPS). However, bacterial infections, especially the biofilm formation on implan...

journal_title：Biointerphases

authors： Guimond-Lischer S,Ren Q,Braissant O,Gruner P,Wampfler B,Maniura-Weber K

更新日期：2016-03-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Hydrotalcite (HT) and other layered double metal hydroxides are of great interest as gene delivery and timed release drug delivery systems and as enteric vehicles for biologically active molecules that are sensitive to gastric fluids. HT is a naturally occurring double metal hydroxide that can be synthesized as a nano...

journal_title：Biointerphases

authors： Sanderson BA,Sowersby DS,Crosby S,Goss M,Lewis LK,Beall GW

更新日期：2013-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The authors present surface engineering modifications through chemistry of poly(methylmethacrylate) (PMMA) that have dramatic effects on the result of surface-bound fluorescence immunoassays, both for specific and nonspecific signals. The authors deduce the most important effect to be clustering of antibodies on the s...

journal_title：Biointerphases

authors： Akers PW,Hoai Le NC,Nelson ARJ,McKenna M,O'Mahony C,McGillivray DJ,Gubala V,Williams DE

更新日期：2017-06-06 00:00:00

abstract：:To image inflammation sites, we developed a novel nanoparticle, hydroxylamine-containing nanoparticle (HANP), which emits an intense electron spin resonance (ESR)-signal triggered by enzymatic oxidation reaction and pH-sensitive self-disintegration. The nanoparticle was prepared from an amphiphilic block copolymer, po...

journal_title：Biointerphases

authors： Yoshitomi T,Nagasaki Y

更新日期：2012-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Photolithographic techniques have been used to fabricate polymer brush micro- and nanostructures. On exposure to UV light with a wavelength of 244 nm, halogens were selectively removed from films of chloromethylphenyltrichlorosilane and 3-(2-bromoisobutyramido)propyl-triethoxysilane on silicon dioxide. Patterning was ...

journal_title：Biointerphases

authors： Ahmad SA,Leggett GJ,Hucknall A,Chilkoti A

更新日期：2011-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Microneedle technology is one of the attractive methods in transdermal drug delivery. However, the clinical applications of this method are limited owing to: complexity in the preparation of multiple coating solutions, drug leakage while inserting the microneedles into the skin and the outer walls of the solid microne...

journal_title：Biointerphases

authors： Vinayakumar KB,Hegde GM,Ramachandra SG,Nayak MM,Dinesh NS,Rajanna K

更新日期：2015-06-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Collecting information at the interface between living cells and artificial substrates is exceedingly difficult. The extracellular matrix (ECM) mediates all cell-substrate interactions, and its ordered, fibrillar constituents are organized with nanometer precision. The proceedings at this interface are highly dynamic ...

journal_title：Biointerphases

authors： Diesner MO,Welle A,Kazanci M,Kaiser P,Spatz J,Koelsch P

更新日期：2011-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Not only bacteria but also fungal pathogens, particularly Candida species, can lead to biofilm infections on biomedical devices. By covalent grafting of the antifungal drug caspofungin, which targets the fungal cell wall, onto solid biomaterials, a surface layer can be created that might be able to provide long-term p...

journal_title：Biointerphases

authors： Griesser SS,Jasieniak M,Coad BR,Griesser HJ

更新日期：2015-12-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Bacterial colonies that reside on a surface, known as biofilms, are intrinsically impenetrable to traditional antibiotics, ultimately driving research toward an alternative therapeutic approach. Nitric oxide (NO) has gained attention for its biologically beneficial properties, particularly centered around its antibact...

journal_title：Biointerphases

authors： Neufeld BH,Reynolds MM

更新日期：2016-09-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Inhalation of combustion-derived ultrafine particles (≤0.1 μm) has been found to be associated with pulmonary and cardiovascular diseases. However, correlation of the physicochemical properties of carbon-based particles such as surface charge and agglomeration state with adverse health effects has not yet been establi...

journal_title：Biointerphases

authors： Durantie E,Barosova H,Drasler B,Rodriguez-Lorenzo L,Urban DA,Vanhecke D,Septiadi D,Hirschi-Ackermann L,Petri-Fink A,Rothen-Rutishauser B

更新日期：2018-09-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Soft x-ray spectromicroscopy techniques have seen great amount of development in the recent years, and with the development of new diffraction limited synchrotron source, many new nanoscale and mesoscale characterization opportunities of applied materials are foreseen. In this perspective, the authors present some exa...

journal_title：Biointerphases

authors： Dietrich PM,Unger WE,Swaraj S

更新日期：2016-10-28 00:00:00

abstract：:The authors report on the characterization of the charge formation at supported bilayer lipid membranes (sBLMs) prepared from the zwitterionic lipid 1,2-dioleoyl-sn-glycero-3-phosphatidylcholine on planar silicon dioxide substrates. The charging of the sBLMs was studied in KCl solutions of different ionic strengths be...

journal_title：Biointerphases

authors： Zimmermann R,Küttner D,Renner L,Kaufmann M,Zitzmann J,Müller M,Werner C

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nanodiamond (ND) particles are popular platforms for the immobilization of molecular species. In the present research, enzyme Escherichia coli inorganic pyrophosphatase (PPase) was immobilized on detonation ND through covalent or noncovalent bonding and its enzymatic activity was characterized. Factors affecting adsor...

journal_title：Biointerphases

authors： Rodina EV,Valueva AV,Yakovlev RY,Vorobyeva NN,Kulakova II,Lisichkin GV,Leonidov NB

更新日期：2015-12-21 00:00:00

abstract：:The use of nanoparticles is one of the fastest expanding fields in industrial as well as in medical applications, owing to their remarkable characteristics. Silver nanoparticles (AgNPs) are among the most-commercialized nanoparticles because of their antibacterial effects. Laser postionization secondary neutral mass s...

journal_title：Biointerphases

authors： Nees R,Pelster A,Körsgen M,Jungnickel H,Luch A,Galla HJ,Arlinghaus HF

更新日期：2015-06-15 00:00:00